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...Meetings continue at all local Kingdoms, even at School Street in Newark. In the last two years his movement has become active in many States and foreign countries...
Yellow lights glowed from all four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...
...Father" Divine was not present. He and his big old yellow wife, "Mother" Divine, were said to be in Richmond, Va. In charge was John F. Selkridge, Father Divine's Bishop. The Newark police promptly declared the Divine Heaven a disorderly house, although the resident blackamoors of the cult slept in segregated dormitories and there was no question of moral turpitude. All the cultists were turned out. Black Bishop Selkridge and four others were taken to the station house, held in bond...
Puzzled over the difficulty of maintaining even a pork chop Heaven on earth, Bishop Selkridge and his four followers rocked quietly back and forth in the Newark jail last week, still muttering their chant, "Peace . . . Peace . . . Isn't it wonderful! Peace...
...Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...